On most farms, he sows the seed in spring, superintends the field-workers in summer, tends the harvest-field and builds the stacks in autumn, and thrashes the corn with the mill, and cleans it with the winnowing-machine in winter. ❋ Various (N/A)
We meet in the Chinese section with the original of our fanning-mill or winnowing-machine for grain. ❋ Various (N/A)
In one of the barns a winnowing-machine was working, sending out clouds of dust. ❋ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1882)
At the threshing-mill, at the winnowing-machine, among the great rice stacks where they were packing and sorting and unloading from barges, the women were coarse, brutish, and densely ignorant; the men, in the main, the same. ❋ Unknown (1875)
The questionable sound of Silas's loom, so unlike the natural cheerful trotting of the winnowing-machine, or the simpler rhythm of the flail, had a half-fearful fascination for the ❋ George Eliot (1849)
An effort was made to persuade the predecessor of the present Pontiff, Gregory XVI., to sanction the admission into Rome of a winnowing-machine. ❋ James Aitken Wylie (1849)
Thus, then, have the St. Edmundsbury Monks, without express ballot-box or other good winnowing-machine, contrived to accomplish the most important social feat a body of men can do, to winnow out the man that is to govern them: and truly one sees not that, by any winnowing-machine whatever, they could have done it better. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
But without soul, alas what winnowing-machine in human elections, can be of avail? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
This then is the ballot-box and electoral winnowing-machine they have at St. Edmundsbury: a mind fixed on the Thrice Holy, an appeal to God on high to witness their meditation: by far the best, and indeed the only good electoral winnowing-machine, -- If men have souls in them. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
God on high to witness their meditation: by far the best, and indeed the only good electoral winnowing-machine, -- if men have souls in them. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Thus, then, have the St. Edmundsbury Monks, without express ballot-box or other good winnowing-machine, contrived to accomplish the most important social feat a body of men can do, to winnow-out the man that is to govern them: and truly one sees not that, by any winnowing-machine whatever, they could have done it better. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
This, then, is the ballot-box and electoral winnowing-machine they have at St. Edmundsbury: a mind fixed on the Thrice Holy, an appeal to ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
But without soul, alas, what winnowing-machine in human elections can be of avail? ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
The questionable sound of Silas's loom, so unlike the natural cheerful trotting of the winnowing-machine, or the simpler rhythm of the flail, had a half-fearful fascination for the Raveloe boys, who would often leave off their nutting or birds'-nesting to peep in at the window of the stone cottage, counterbalancing a certain awe at the mysterious action of the loom, by a pleasant sense of scornful superiority, drawn from the mockery of its alternating noises, along with the bent, tread-mill attitude of the weaver. ❋ Unknown (1861)
a winnowing-machine, but quite a tame one, for its wheel I could drive myself -- the handle now high as my head, now low as my knee -- and watch at the same time the storm of chaff driven like drifting snowflakes from its wide mouth. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
